Attorney Lynne Stewart has been one of the most
courageous friends the Muslim community has had in the
"Big Apple." On many occasions she was present when
the Arab and Muslim community needed her. Now Lynne
Stewart - a newly minted political prisoner in the
United States of America - needs us!

I am planning to be in attendance at tonight's program
in New York City. What about you?

Send Personal Letters of support for Lynne TODAY to
Judge John G. Koeltl.
Personal Letters to Judge Koeltl urging him to
consider Lynne Stewarts’s many years of service to the
people are very helpful.

Address your letter to:

Honorable John G. Koeltl, United States District
Judge, Southern District of New York,
500 Pearl Street , New York , NY 10007

Lynne Stewart, the 70 year old “Peoples Lawyer” should
not be in jail. The charges, long trial and her
conviction are an effort at government intimidation.

Lynne was ordered to prison to begin serving her
sentence after her bail was revoked in November 2009,
even though her Appeal is still under review and her
potential further Appeal to the Supreme Court is
pending.

In a dangerous and unprecedented higher court ruling
the judge is directed to re-sentence her to a much
harsher sentence then the already outrageous 28 months
she is currently serving.

Support for Lynne Stewart is urgently needed – BEFORE
her scheduled July 15 re-sentencing in Federal Court.

Lynne Stewart is internationally known as the
“People’s Lawyer” for her decades of tireless defense
of political prisoners and unpopular clients in social
justice and human rights cases.

The “Justice for Lynne Stewart” Web site (www.lynnestewart.org)
describes the government’s case against Stewart as “an
obvious attempt ... to silence dissent, curtail
vigorous defense lawyers, and instill fear in those
who would fight against the U.S. government’s racism,
seek to help Arabs and Muslims being prosecuted for
free speech and defend the rights of all oppressed
people.”

The case of seventy-year-old great grandmother, cancer
survivor, former school librarian, long time political
activist / organizer, and former New York City defense
attorney Lynne Stewart is indicative of the U.S.
Government's ongoing attempts to frighten, discredit,
intimidate, and silence the people of this nation, and
most particularly in this case, defense attorneys who
dare to seriously exercise the constitutional right
and duty to provide their clients with a vigorous and
uncompromising legal defense.

This incredibly courageous woman must not be abandoned
by us. She has serious health problems and dangerous
blood pressure problems. She has been torn from her
life-partner Ralph Poynter, her children and
grandchildren, her many friends and the many
defendants she represented.

Lynne did not abandon justice-loving people and we
cannot abandon her. Lynne Stewart is known for seeking
justice not only in the courts but also on the
streets, appearing at many protests and rallies.

Attorney Lynne Stewart is a target and a victim of the
Patriot Act. We must remember that Lynne Stewart spoke
and speaks truth to power on behalf of the everyday
people and we can do no less.

So many wild lies have been sensationalized in the
media over the past 8 years that it is important to
review the facts.

On Tuesday, April 9, 2002 Lynne Stewart was arrested
based on charges that 2 years earlier she had issued a
press release on the views of her client Sheikh Omar
Abdel Rahman, a blind, diabetic and disabled Egyptian
cleric held in total isolation in Federal Prison. No
one was injured or hurt by her action and her press
release was not a crime. It was an administrative
violation.

Wiretaps and hidden cameras were used by the
Government to illegally eavesdrop on attorney/client
conversations to gather “evidence” against her.

Her widely publicized arrest by Attorney General John
Ashcroft was treated as a tabloid sensation and the
crime of the century. The jury was whipped up by fear
mongering around terror threats and 9/11 baiting.
Despite the fear and intimidation many thousands of
people rallied in her defense, held fund-raisers,
meetings and packed the court room day after day of a
nine month trial.

On February 10, 2005, Lynne Stewart was found guilty
of conspiracy, providing material support to
terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government. Her
conviction meant automatic disbarment.

The prosecution urged a sentence of 30 years in order
to: “not only punish Stewart for her actions, but
serve as a deterrent for other lawyers.”

On October 16, 2006, Stewart was sentenced to 28
months after a national letter campaign to the judge
by supporters, past clients, lawyers and even
prosecutors. Judge Koeltl rejected the prosecutors’
argument that she threatened national security and
ruled there was no evidence her actions caused any
harm. Judge Koeltl said that during her long career of
representing unpopular clients Stewart had "performed
a public service, not only to her clients, but to the
nation."

On November 17, 2009, a three-judge panel of the
Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on her and
the government's appeals. The higher court upheld
Lynne Stewart’s conviction, ordered the district court
to revoke her bail immediately, and demanded that she
be resentenced by the judge who originally sentenced
her, urging him to consider additional factors for a
longer sentence. Prosecutors in the 2005 trial had
wanted 30 years.

To put Lynne Stewart behind bars when no one was
injured, no one was harmed, when those who produced
the torture memos, those who produced the wars are
going free is an outrage and a crime against justice.

Lynne Stewart believes her case is a trumped-up
maneuver to warn attorneys with an interest in social
justice away from taking on the government. Says
Stewart: “I believe the larger implications are that
this is a warning shot for other lawyers. Don’t
advocate for your clients in a vigorous, strong way or
you will end up like she did. Disbarred and in jail.”

By supporting Lynne Stewart, we are loving and
supporting the very best in ourselves. We are
defending the Bill of Rights and civil liberties.

Be in court – 500 Pearl Street , in lower Manhattan ,
Judge Koeltl courtroom when Lynne Stewart is
resentenced on JULY 15 at 2:30 pm. Support rally in
front of Federal Court begins at 11 am.

Personal Letters to Judge Koeltl urging him to
consider Lynne Stewarts’s many years of service to the
people are very helpful.

Address your letter to:

Honorable John G. Koeltl, United States District
Judge, Southern District of New York,
500 Pearl Street , New York , NY 10007